| NOUN | event | backlash, recoil, repercussion, rebound | a movement back from an impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | backlash | an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | |
| VERB | social | backlash, backfire, recoil | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect |
| Sounds | bae'klae.sh | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abash ... whiplash: 38 rhymes with aesh... | |
| Meaning | A movement back from an impact. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | recoil, repercussion, rebound | |
| Narrower | bounce, bouncing | rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) |
| resilience, resiliency | An occurrence of rebounding or springing back | |
| ricochet, carom | A glancing rebound | |
| Broader | movement, motion | A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
| Spanish | culatazo, repercusión, retroceso | |
| Catalan | repercussió, retrocés | |
| Meaning | An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "there was a backlash of intolerance" | |
| Narrower | whitelash, white backlash | Backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances |
| Broader | reaction | Doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like |
| Verbs | backlash | come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect |
| Meaning | Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | backfire, recoil | |
| Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place | Come to pass |
| Nouns | backlash | an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence |
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